Anne Frank's Life Timeline
DateEvent
June 12, 1929Anne Frank is born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
March 1933Nazi party is elected to power in Germany.
Summer 1933The Frank family moves to the Netherlands.
May 10, 1940German forces invade the Netherlands.
June 12, 1942Anne's 13th birthday.
She receives her diary as a present from her father.
July 5, 1942Margot Frank (Anne's sister) receives a notice to go to a transit camp.
July 6, 1942The Frank family mvoes into their hiding place which becomes known as the Secret Annex.
August 4, 1944The Franks are arrested in the Secret Annexe.
September 2, 1944Anne and the other members of the Secret Annexe are sent to Auschwitz.
April 1945Anne dies of typhus in Bergen-Belsen.
June 25, 1947The first edition of the Diary of Anne Frank goes on sale.

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